Thiel Owners

Agreed William,
a damn shame about Saab. I owned one back in the 80's.
A fun car to drive and could weather any road conditions.

The new iteration of Thiel has probably reached a point of no return.
As luck has it, there are a plethora of original JT designs in the secondary market. Happy Listening!

Yeah, there will likely always be old Thiel speakers available on the second hand market. But Jim’s last great Thiels, the 3.7 and 2.7,* are damned rare on the market now. I’ve been keeping track. When I look at my 3.7/2.7s I think "whoa I’m lucky to have these."

And that was reiterated once again as I was out speaker shopping this week. I heard more contemporary speakers from $4,000 up to about $30,000 and none of them sounded to me as good as the Thiels. What a crazy bargain the 3.7 was in particular.

(*I know the 2.7 was partially designed after Jim's death, but it obviously carried on his work).

Jafant,
I re-did everything again.My 3.7's are with my xpa 1 monos just for 2 channel now. My 805's I'm using for home theater .I  had to find a use for the 1.6's so surround rears they are.My rear channel never sounded this good!I feel like I got my 2.4's back,only smaller which is good!Every squirrel finds a nut sometimes!

jafant, Unlike us ,"socialist" Sweden refused to bail out anyone in the 2008 melt-down, not Saab, not Volvo not the biggest bank in Sweden.
No public debt for private losses .

Prof
When i decided that I wanted Thiel speakers I was looking at a pair
of 3.6s up in Portland but by the time I ready to rent a van and go and buy them the were gone , so I started to look for used 3.7s
but the prices were still to high for me ( $6,800 plus shipping ! )
so when I saw 3 pairs 2.7s going on E-Bay for $3,000 I didn't exactly jump on them right away , I placed a bid and lost :(  then another  
3 pairs went up for bid , I lost again :( , So I called the seller
Thiel audio and they had 3 more pairs and I bought a pair for $3,000
with first choice of finishes :) ,
on the same morning they listed 1 pair of 3.7s for $7,000 !
I thought about calling them back and buying them but still to rich for me. 
These were all new , Thiel didn't even know they had them until they went into the storage room were they thought the file cabinets had been placed after the move to Tennessee .
the last new genuine Thiels available .
I feel very , very Lucky.
and now very very Happy  :)

I haven't heard back from Rob at Thiel about the crossover capacitors yet .

Rob